The Portland daily press., 1887-12-05
SHARP AND TWEED.
providence Journal
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

The opening paper in the December Culver tells
the story Of The Culver Waits, two children sup
ported by The Culver and what is being done for
them, and is certainly noble record. The first
chapter Of a new serial, mot all in Vain," by
Lambert Shields are given and the reader is inter-
ested from the first line. wealth as Profess
sion" is discussed by Rev. e. j.. Hardy. The first
of a series Of papers on "How God Preserved the
New Testament" follows from the pen of the Dean
of Canterbury. We are introduced to 1.-THE
he FarI Il az MeaPH tells u ns How TO keen nur
Youths" Noteworthy Church Reports,"is is an
Interesting paper. and SO Is the one BY Lady John
Manners on promoting the Present and Future
Welfare of Our Servants"
The readers Of st. Nicholas will discover in the
December number, that Mrs. Frances Hodsdon
Burnett has created worthy companion charac-
ter to Little Lord Fauntleroy" in the heroine of
her story "Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at
Miss Minchins," and, as in the earlier story, the
authors conceptions are aided in their setting
forth by the work Of the illustrator, Mr.. r. B.
Birch. Mr.. Frank II. Stockton administers a
salutary little lesson to both young and old in one
of bis admirable stories, The Clocks of Ron
daine," the first part of which appears in this
number; and the Reverend Washington GLADDEN.
in "santa Claus in the Pulpit, reveals the good
strange story of 'sThe Bear that had Bank
Acco1nt;' While j. I. Trewbridge gives an
account of "How the Hart Boys Saw Great Salt
Lake." and Sarah ]. Pritchard draws an interest
ing sketch of Puritan days and of the dinicuities
which attended the setting up of "Ihe First
Christmas Tree In New England" One OF the
most interesting papers Of the number Is the story
of the ascension of the great air-ship from ST.
Louis last June by MFR. Edward Duffy Of the New
York World who took part in it.
The Atlantic Monthly for 1883 will contain in
addition to the best short stories, sketches, es-
says, poetry and criticism; three serial stories;
The Aspen Papers, in three parts, by Henry
James; Yone Santo: A Child of Japan. by Ed
ward H. House, who has lived many years in
Japan, and in this story will describe the life.
character. and customs of the Japanese; and
Reaping the whirlwind, by George Egb ert Grad
American Revolution, by John Fiske; Boston
Painters and Paintings, by William H. Downes;
Three Studies of Factory Life by l.. g. Wyman,
author Of Poverty Grass; occasional poems by
Wendell Holmes; occaslonnal papers by James
Russell Lowell.
The December number of the Magazine of Art
begins new volume. A fine etching after Sey
mour Lucas's famous painting "Fleeced' is offered
as frontispece. The opening paper is on Mr..
Lucas and his work, and is from the pen of that
careful art critic, Mr.. Edmund Gosse. The arti-
Gle is filed with engravngs from his best known
pictures, which bear out all that Mr.. Gosse says
in their praise. In quite a different vein is the
next paper, The Harbors of New Zealand, but IL
is none the less readable. The first of series of
Studies in English Costume gives us a Charles
the Second military coat, with all its pictorial
possibility. A short but careful criticism on Mr.:
Frank Dicksee's Adam and Eve. by j. Penderel
Brodhurst accompanies a full page reproduction
Of that painting.